Sam: How can you state that my proof is invalid without showing where it breaks down?
Note that there is no radix point involved in my proof.
DecimalSeries(N) = 9/10 + 9/100 + 9/1000 + . . . + 9/10^N
HexSeries(N) = 15/16 + 15/256 + 15/4096 + . . . + 15/16^N
The above explicitly specify what recurring .99999 and recurring .FFFFF really represent, without using radix notation which is only a convenient shorthand notation.
For all values of N, it is obvious that DecimalSeries < HexSeries < 1
Hence there is a real number greater than DecimalSeries(N) and less than one, namely HexSeries(N).
Where does the above break down?
For what value of N does the above become invalid?
Perhaps you want to claim that HexSeries(N) = 1 for some value of N. Such a claim still leaves DecimalSeries(N) less that one.




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